Blockchain has got numerous applications in various fields and one of the promising one is agriculture. The blockchain application in agriculture includes food safety through traceability of provenance, information system, agro-trade, finance, crop certification and insurance etc. Thus this paper aims to review the applications of blockchain in agriculture field from all major databases ranging from Web of Science to Scopus. The study shows that though there exist many blockchain based application in agriculture but only few countries are able to grasp it where China is leader followed by USA, Italy, India and Spain. This paper also reviews the recent trends about blockchain research in agriculture and subsequently provides future research directions.
Keywords
Agriculture, Blockchain, Future Research Directions, Literature Review, Traceability